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Date:      Mon, 22 Dec 2014 18:30:00 +0100
From:      =?UTF-8?B?SmVhbi1Tw6liYXN0aWVuIFDDqWRyb24=?= <dumbbell@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" <freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   hald(8) vs. xorg-server's HAL
Message-ID:  <54985518.4090403@FreeBSD.org>

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Hi!

A few days ago, xserver 1.14 was committed with a new input device
detection backend based on devd(8) instead of hald(8).

It appears many people disabled hald(8) in their /etc/rc.conf and now
see regressions. So let's clarify this.

The X.Org server was a consumer of the service provided by hald(8) among
many others. Now, by default, xserver uses devd(8) to perform the same ta=
sk.

However, hald(8) is still required by many Desktop environment! Beside
input devices, hald(8) helps some applications list other kind of
resources, such as storage device or mountpoints, and get notifications.

Therefore, keep hald_enable=3D"yes" in your /etc/rc.conf unless you are
sure no application use it.

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Jean-S=C3=A9bastien P=C3=A9dron


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